Henri Rochereau

Henri Rochereau (25 March 1908 – 25 January 1999) was a French politician and European Commissioner.

Henri was the son of Victor Rochereau, a National Assembly of France député (deputy) for the Vendée department (1914–1942). Henri worked as a solicitors clerk and later in an exporting business.

In the 1988 French presidential election, he supported the right-wing National Front candidate Jean-Marie Le Pen.

• From 1949 to 1959 he was a member of the Senate of France for the Vendée department and a council leader for the canton of Les Essarts
• From May 1959 to August 1961 Minister for Agriculture in the government of Michel Debré
• From 1962 to 1970 he was Overseas Development Commissioner in the second Hallstein Commission, and from 1967, in the Rey Commission
• From 1970 to 1986 he was President of the association of Large French Ports